"When the PG Belicoso was introduced in the United States in 1990, it was the first Belicoso to be introduced in the American market. Belicoso and Belicoso Fino were based on the traditional Cuban Belicoso Fino by Bolivar.

The shape of the Belicoso Fino Bolivar made in Cuba started at 52 at the foot and tapered down slightly as you got closer to the head of the cigar. The new innovation of the PG Belicoso was that the cigar started at the foot at a ring gauge of 52 and continued on to the head of the cigar by maintaining the 52 ring gauge.

In the absence of the mold for the Belicoso shape in the Dominican Republic, at that time, the original PG Belicosos were rolled by only one roller named Socrates at Hendrik Kelner’s Tobacos Dominicanos. The skill that Socrates used to roll the Belicosos was that once the cigar, beginning and ending at 52 ring gauge, came out of the mold comprised of the fillers and the binder, the tip was constructed by rolling the wrapper around the cigar and shaping it in a pointed manner thus having the head of a Torpedo cigar and the body of a cigar that started at 52 and ended at 52 (without tapering down to what normally happens with Torpedo, which I call ‘the funnelling effect’. )"

Unlike the head of a regular cigar which is completed by adding a small separate piece of wrapper to produce the cap of the finished cigar, in the case of the Belicoso, the head is produced with a continual twist of the wrapper toward the head of the cigar to produce the tip.

Eventually, the construction of the PG Belicosos was entrusted to a limited number of rollers who now had acquired the skills to roll the Belicosos and Belicoso Finos after years of experience."